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January 26, 2009
Modernism, as we know from this exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum impacted on all aspects of Australian culture — from art, design and architecture to advertising, photography, film and fashion.
The curator argued that modernism was a style of big cities and urban life, and for much of the 20th century, it was at odds with Australia's national self-image that was still strongly focused on rural culture, national character and a rural way of life. Through the 1950s and 60s urban Australia aspired to a modern identity, one no longer invested in rural life or in a British colonial heritage. Instead of the flight to the suburbs and the bush modernism celebrated the romance of cities.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Melbourne cityscape lower Collins Street, 2008.
Dan Hill at City of Sounds argues that the Powerhouse Museum's Modern Times exhibition emphasizes social and cultural patterns emerging throughout the modern period at the expense of the architecture.Hence the idea of a Google map of Australia modernist architecture. This map shows that Adelaide was barely modern.
Hence the idea of improving on the initial map by utilizing the work from the Modern Times Flickr group, and this has resulted in a new map.
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